linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute

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Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:00:11 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>, santosh@...lsio.com,
        davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group
 structures.

On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 16:04 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
> attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
> working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work
> with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.

I think it's good you are doing all of these.

Instead of individually sending these patches, could you
please send a patch series for all of these attribute_group
patches with a cover letter at the same time?

That could make it easier for a trivial maintainer to apply
all of these at once and not get some applied and others
ignored or dropped on the floor.